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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akira Ito, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Michael D Church, Sebastian, FL (US);
Assignee:
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
257357 ; 257371 ; 257603 ; 257360 ;
Abstract
An ESD protection diode for a CMOS or BiCMOS integrated circuit formed by imbedding a Zener diode in the drain of a MOS device used as a protection diode. The Zener diode may be formed with the preexisting process steps of a BiCMOS process, and it provides a low voltage trigger for avalanche breakdown in the MOS ESD protection diode.